noun:

• purlin (structural beam in a roof); purline - Architecture term ➜ 母屋桁
• main building (of a manor) ➜ 母屋【おもや】
• central room (in traditional palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造

noun:

• preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism) ［おしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism) ［かしょう］ - honorific language
• preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism) ［わじょう］ - usu. 和上 - honorific language
• second highest priestly rank in Buddhism ➜ 法眼
• monk (esp. the head monk of a temple) ［おしょう・かしょう］
• master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• participation in a war; going to war
• "taking part in a competition or contest" [figurative]

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to light (a candle, lamp, etc.); to turn on (a light)

noun:

• neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
• all sides; frontiers (of a country)
• four sides (of a shape)

noun / ~する noun:

• capture; seizure
• military capture of a foreign vessel; making a prize of - Law term

noun:

• gallery (of a theatre)
• audience (at a theatre); the masses; the general public

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• lacking enough gravity for (a position, task); being an insignificant figure for (a position) - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have a meal (before doing something); to fortify oneself with a meal

noun:

• (in P2P networks) a program that monitors (and adjusts) activity of a P2P program - colloquialism - IT term ➜ モニター

noun:

• auxiliary shrine (dedicated to a deity close-related to that of a main shrine) ➜ 本社

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to bail out the ocean with a teaspoon; to scoop water with a basket [literal] - idiom

noun:

• tatami room - polite language ➜ 座敷
• dinner party in a tatami room with a geisha or maiko ➜ 座敷

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to come of age (for a girl) - obscure term ➜ 肩揚げ
• to lengthen the sleeves of a kimono - obscure term

noun:

• young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor

noun / ~する noun:

• return of the Emperor (from a visit)
• return of a shintai to its shrine - Shintō term ➜ 神体

godan ~る verb:

• to draw a tile from the wall - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸
• to win on a self-drawn tile - Mahjong term ➜ 自摸

noun:

• ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner

noun:

• title; subject; theme; topic
• problem (on a test); question

suffix noun / counter:

• counter for questions (on a test)

noun / ~する noun:

• being elected
• being selected (to win a prize, etc.)
• winning (in a lottery, raffle, etc.) ➜ 当籤

noun:

• text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter)
• this passage; this sentence

noun:

• length of a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
• walking on the edge of a sword

noun / ~の noun:

• pericarp (ripened ovary wall forming part of a fruit)
• skin (of a fruit); peel; rind

noun / ~する noun:

• kun'yomi (native Japanese reading of a kanji)
• reading a Chinese text (kanbun) in Japanese

noun:

• sign of a ship (e.g. through fog, silhouette, etc.); outline of a ship